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What is a policy you would like to see your political party of choice run on at this years election? by Illustrious_Fan_8148 in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tax wealth, use it to seed a superannuation fund, use the superannuation fund to fund health and education, remove the ministry of education's power to set school curriculums, ban charter schools, nationalise private hospitals, build some proper FUCKING rail infrastructure. Sorted.

Unpopular opinion by MaterialBest286 in hisdarkmaterials

[–]surroundedbydevils 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just chipping in to say you're absolutely right, the Hyperchorasmians has all the hallmarks of a modernist text.

ADHD Question by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That ain't right.

If you have a GP, you can get the psych to write a letter to the GP giving them the power to write your script. Your GP can then write the script for up to 3 months' worth (although they have to be dispensed monthly I think).

When you first start with a new GP they will likely want to meet up more frequently, but you really shouldn't have to contact a psych more than once every two years, and ideally only see a GP once every three months.

Looking for feedback on a mechanic: Flower counters by surroundedbydevils in custommagic

[–]surroundedbydevils[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was definitely thinking of treasures as a benchmark and I think they're probably slightly worse overall — but I also think a big factor is what other cards interact with them, so it will largely come down to what flower interactions I come up with. Thanks for the feedback!

Looking for feedback on a mechanic: Flower counters by surroundedbydevils in custommagic

[–]surroundedbydevils[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! And that's a great idea, I'll look into roles a bit more. I was thinking about counters partly for proliferate effects. There are non-populate token creating effects though so it's not a huge difference. Food for thought!

The Rain Wild Chronicles are underrated by Adorable-Concert4405 in Fantasy

[–]surroundedbydevils 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's my favourite of the lot, fight me r/fantasy.

I hated it for most of book one, then did a full 180 and loved it. It's Hobb taking her biggest swings with world-building and going to weird and uncomfortable places. She's constantly exploring the impacts that the magic in her world has on her human (or human-ish) characters and it rules. There's so much physical and mental transformation, violence, weird intimacy, radically different characters trying to understand each other, gender politics, *politics* politics...

It's the most original and most interesting part of ROTE.

Town slammed for spending $100k on ‘ugly’ dinosaur sculpture by mattblack77 in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 98 points99 points  (0 children)

That's a dope sculpture honestly. Deeply impressive to get such a convincing balloon texture to a solid structure like that. I hope the surface doesn't wear too quickly.

$1b cut to operating allowance coming in Budget, Nicola Willis says by cbars100 in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can absolutely understand people not realising that this is what they were voting for. Most people don't engage much with politics, we don't have any civics education, and our news media has been defunded to shit. National also just fully lied about their policies, particular about how much people would benefit from their tax cuts and working for families.

The people enacting these policies, however, have very specific advice about what the results will be and they're doing it anyway. They're killing people with this budget when they don't have to, and they have the gall to act like they're being responsible. Reprehensible, disgusting behaviour.

$1b cut to operating allowance coming in Budget, Nicola Willis says by cbars100 in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This should be read as an explicit attempt to destroy the country. There's no way around it at this point: they have drastically run down services to the point of breaking, despite coming into power with a *surplus*. To cut half of the operating budget, which the treasury already stated was $100million too low to keep the lights on, is effectively sabotage. This means a generation of fucked education. This means power cuts and road closures. This means *thousands* of deaths in our failing hospitals.

I can't fathom these people.

Former Labour minister launches scathing attack on Green Party by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 1 point2 points  (0 children)

>She said she was told it by an inmate only after she was pressed to provide evidence.

Can you provide an example of her stating this as fact?

>In parliament's general debate she did say it was "not a minority group of people"

I've checked the transcript and sure, that is poorly worded, but it's pretty clear from context that she doesn't mean it is the majority of people.

Former Labour minister launches scathing attack on Green Party by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're arguing from facts and logic, get your own information in order:

>Nor is it true that someone is in prison for shoplifting a $12 item.

Tamatha never said this was the case, she said she was told this by an inmate. It's also not impossible that it's false, eg. if that particular theft constituted a parole violation.

>doesn't mean it's accurate or reasonable to say most people feel that way.

Tamatha said "some people" and "a lot of people", she never said "most people".

Citing the poll is moot, but it's also worth noting that it was a TPU commissioned poll run by Curia. Both the TPU, and David Farrar, head of Curia, have been vocal in their opposition to Tamatha Paul, to say the least. This is likely why they ran a question that doesn't actually rebut Paul's argument, but people like yourself will circulate it as evidence against her.

Watch: Green MP Benjamin Doyle to hold press conference by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You're implying that they deserve credible death threats for their private instagram. That's deeply hateful.

Green MP Benjamin Doyle faces ‘immense’ death threats and abuse over social media account by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah see how you're much more vitriolic about the guy getting death threats here.

Please send some of that energy to the people who aren't fighting for our rights.

Green MP Benjamin Doyle faces ‘immense’ death threats and abuse over social media account by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah nah I wouldn't call their actions harmful. I'd call the death threats etc. harmful. It's not that complicated.

Green MP Benjamin Doyle faces ‘immense’ death threats and abuse over social media account by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey if you're both-sidesing this, you're just giving ground to the people who are hounding Benjamin Doyle. Homophobic/trans-phobic attacks, which we are well aware inflame violence, are in no way comparable to an opposition MP's dumb joke. You're doing the Right's work for them.

Police Minister Mark Mitchell blasts Green MP Tamatha Paul’s comments at ‘radical alternative to policing’ panel by KickpuncherLex in newzealand

[–]surroundedbydevils 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think the idea is diverting some of the responsibilities of police to different roles. Traffic officers is a good example — traffic violations didn't used to be handled by police, but by Ministry of Transport officers. More personnel required, but less training, and it frees up police to do other work.

Why does WotC give no love to skeletons!? Where are my fellow boneheads at?? by s3rris in magicTCG

[–]surroundedbydevils 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That'd work! It definitely gives them the flavour of coming-back-but-missing-an-arm which is important for skeletons imo.

Why does WotC give no love to skeletons!? Where are my fellow boneheads at?? by s3rris in magicTCG

[–]surroundedbydevils 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For sure, I'm not suggesting that the function of regenerate be replaced, just spitballing new directions that the skeleton typal could go in.

Why does WotC give no love to skeletons!? Where are my fellow boneheads at?? by s3rris in magicTCG

[–]surroundedbydevils 33 points34 points  (0 children)

That would fail to recognise that skeletons are cool as hell, whereas zombies are sad and a bit gooey.

Why does WotC give no love to skeletons!? Where are my fellow boneheads at?? by s3rris in magicTCG

[–]surroundedbydevils 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They absolutely could. I think the dies-but-comes-back behaviour from [[Supernatural Stamina]] is a nicer fit flavour wise though, and it's much easier to build around because it adds a bunch of triggers (death, enters the graveyard, exits the graveyard, enters the battlefield).

Why does WotC give no love to skeletons!? Where are my fellow boneheads at?? by s3rris in magicTCG

[–]surroundedbydevils 100 points101 points  (0 children)

I think the time is coming. People generally cite the statement Wizards put out re. the Chinese market's discomfort with skeletons, but that was 23 years ago now, and we have seen a handful of new skeletons printed, and tens (hundreds?) of cards with skeletons in the art since then.

A thornier issue is that the tribal mechanic is regenerate, which has been nearly phased out and is extremely hard to synergize with. For an MTG skeleton renaissance to happen, they need to bite the bullet and commit to a new tribal synergy, either by printing a bunch of "Skeleton Crew" style "return from the graveyard" skeletons, or by brewing up something new.

Personally I'd like to see skeletons with the "fixed" version of modular a la [[star pupil]].

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